Famous Religion Quotes
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.
Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.
England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
When I have a terrible need of — shall I say the word — religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man’s reasoning powers are not above the monkey’s.
I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: 'Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is.' Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.
The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.
